Hold Up on Fourteenth Street

© Delaware Art Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Not for reproduction or publica…
© Delaware Art Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Not for reproduction or publication.
Hold Up on Fourteenth Street
© Delaware Art Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Not for reproduction or publication.

Hold Up on Fourteenth Street

Date1949
Artist (American painter, etcher, and illustrator, 1871–1951)
Printer/Printmaker (American painter and printmaker, 1893–1969)
MediumEtching
Dimensionsplate: 6 13/16 × 5 7/8 in. (17.3 × 14.9 cm)
sheet: 13 1/4 × 9 3/4 in. (33.7 × 24.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1963
Object number1963-20.221
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPRINT
Label TextThis etching represents a scene in a photographer's studio, with three figures massed on the false rear of a California Limited train, while another—seated on a wooden horse—brandishes a gun, committing the "hold up."